Action men: Sony's fully articulated Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic footage

Slightly ashamed to admit this: I don't know if it was the excessive bloom of the earlier video footage of Tarsier's PS3 remake of Rag Doll Kung Fu (created by Mark Healey just prior to co-founding Media Molecule), but it was only just now that I realized how perfectly plastic each of its fighters are.

Or, really, how perfectly it's evolved from the paper-cut manual-drag look and feel of the original to this action-man scheme which, I'm guessing from the video, combines a hint of the digital puppetry of LittleBigPlanet's Sackboy with triggers mapped unleashing your articulated kung-fu-grip attacks.

I'm also happy to see that customization's made it back in, even if to a lesser degree than the PC's draw-your-own cutout skins: look quickly enough and you'll see that even a fully jointed version of Sackboy has made it in.

Sony says the game will be released for its April 9th PSN update, but you can gently lower yourself into the physicality of its world with a demo of the PC version via Steam.

Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic Punches its Way to PSN April 9! [PlayStation.blog, original PC version home]

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